St. Louis Metro and the
Sierra Club, along with the American Lung Association in Missouri, Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet and other clean air advocates, will participate in a
National Clean Air Day event at the Civic Center MetroLink Station March 16.
Participants will distribute "I Heart Clean Air" postcards and a sweet treat as
a "thank you" to Metro riders for helping to keep the air clean by choosing
transit.

Maine
Gov. John Baldacci provided the details of a $79-million bond proposal that includes
money to save northern Maine's last major rail line and to fund transportation
projects across the state, the Bangor Daily News reports. Pitching the bond package as a type of stimulus
measure, Baldacci said the additional state borrowing would create or protect
thousands of jobs in the state while investing in much-needed highway and
infrastructure projects.

The Chicago Transit Board approved a revenue-generating contract to place additional Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) at rail stations and employee facilities. The ATM contract will generate a total of at least $1.3 million over the next five years. This is in addition to the $4.7 million contract announced at last month's Board meeting.

Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB)
is celebrating its 125th year as a New York City-based international
engineering giant. In 1885, William Barclay Parsons established a consulting
engineering practice at 22 William Street in Lower Manhattan. Since then, PB
has continued to play leading roles on transportation, power, buildings, and
environmental projects throughout the world. Today, the firm is a strategic
consulting, planning, engineering and program/construction management
organization with approximately 14,000 employees in 150 offices on six
continents.

Shovels
will start digging for the Central Corridor LRT line in August east of the
Capitol where work will begin on Robert and 12th streets north of Interstate
94, the Central Corridor Project Office said today. Utility relocations in this
area will be done concurrently with LRT construction.

On March 22, Central Texans
will have a new way to commute as Capital Metro opens its passenger rail line,
Capital MetroRail. Capital Metro said that it will begin passenger service on
the 32-mile Red Line from Leander to Downtown Austin and will offer free fares
the first week of service. There will be nine trips in the morning (six
southbound and three northbound trips) and 10 trips in the afternoon (six northbound
and four southbound trips). The first train will leave Leander Station at 5:25
a.m.

Fulfilling a commitment
to the Long Island City community to end back-riding and shuttle bus service in
as short a period as possible, MTA New York City Transit completed a series of
weekend rehabilitation projects, including major track replacement work on the
Davis Street Curve of the 7 Line. These jobs were completed three weekends
ahead of the projected schedule.

The Newburgh-Beacon Ferry
is resuming normal operations March 10, 2010. Ferry service was suspended
January 4 due to heavy icing in the Hudson River. Ice floes subsequently
damaged the floating dock in Newburgh, N.Y. All repairs have now been
completed.

A short-line railroad
operator that lost a bid last year to operate the restored Piedmont &
Northern Railroad in Gaston County, N.C., is back with another proposal, the
Gaston Gazette reports. Bill Gray, president of
Carolina Central Railway, could not come to terms with transportation officials
on a lease agreement last year. But Gray said he plans to bid again on the
state's latest request to find a long-term operator for the P&N Railroad.